It enables direct value assignment based on the evaluated case, and effectively turns the switch statement into an expression that returns a value. Java's pattern matching capability not only builds ...

Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is ...

Allowing developers to handle an exception from the selector in switch with a case in the switch block would make switch more usable for pattern matching ... expressions in Java would be improved ...

Three of these - Virtual Threads, Record Patterns and Pattern Matching for switch - have completed their ... this new LTS release of Java will be attractive to developers and end-users.